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This work was Lautrec’s first and largest poster. Despite its success, his father – Count Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec – was infuriated that his son was applying his skills as an artist to an advertisement for the newly opened Moulin Rouge: a disreputable venue inhabited by unsavoury performers.

In this poster Lautrec shows La Goulue (The Glutton) accompanied by her regular partner, the willowy Valentin le Désossé (Valentin the Boneless). As a gentleman amateur dancer, Valentin’s bourgeois background contrasted with the lowly origin of the queen of the chahut.

This work was Lautrec’s first and largest poster. Despite its success, his father – Count Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec – was infuriated that his son was applying his skills as an artist to an advertisement for the newly opened Moulin Rouge: a disreputable venue inhabited by unsavoury performers.

In this poster Lautrec shows La Goulue (The Glutton) accompanied by her regular partner, the willowy Valentin le Désossé (Valentin the Boneless). As a gentleman amateur dancer, Valentin’s bourgeois background contrasted with the lowly origin of the queen of the chahut.

This work was Lautrec’s first and largest poster. Despite its success, his father – Count Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec – was infuriated that his son was applying his skills as an artist to an advertisement for the newly opened Moulin Rouge: a disreputable venue inhabited by unsavoury performers.

In this poster Lautrec shows La Goulue (The Glutton) accompanied by her regular partner, the willowy Valentin le Désossé (Valentin the Boneless). As a gentleman amateur dancer, Valentin’s bourgeois background contrasted with the lowly origin of the queen of the chahut.